Gutter section and fastener



(No Model.)

W. H. HAWKINS. GUTTER SECTION AND FASTvENE R. No, 416,914. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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WILLIAM ll. HAWKINS, or s'oI-IAeI-I'rIcoKE, NElV YORK.

GUTTER SECTION AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,914, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed July 17, 1889. Serial N 0. 317,732. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM H. HAWKINS, of Schaghticoke, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Gutter-Section Couplings and Gutter-Fasteners, of which the following description and claims constitute the specification, and which is illustrated by the accompanying sheet ofdrawings.

This invention is a mechanism for coupling together trough and gutter sections and for use in fastening the gutter to the thing by or upon which it is to be supported.

The objects of my improvement areto provide a coupling by means of which the sections of a trough or gutter are rapidly and securely fastened together without the use of bolts, rivets, or solder, which insures great ling and gutter-fastener.

strength, rigidity, and non-leakage at the lapping-point of the sections, provides fasteners for attaching the gutter to suitable supports, and which may be quickly removed from the gutter, thereby allowing of the re distribution of its sections, their compact storage, and shipment.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of the gutter-section coupling and guttor-fastener in position on the gutter. Fig. 2 is an end view of the'gutter-section B. Fig. 3 is an end View of the gutter-section A. Fig. 4. is a general view of the gutter-section coup- Fig.5 is the blank of metal from which the section-coupling and gutter-fasteners are formed. Fig. 6 is the wire device which secures the blank of metal illustrated by Fig. 5 to the gutter-sections A and B and binds those sections together.

Similar letters refer to similarparts throughout the several views.

The sections A and B are made of metal usually used in the construction of gutters, and are of uniform dimensions. The indentations b are made in the top edges of each section at each of its corners, Figs. 2 and 3.

The gutter-section coupling and gutterfastener O is formed of the flexible plate (1 and wires 5, Fig. 4.. The plate d is of uniform width. The ends of that plate are respectively divided into three parts by mak- Fig. 5. The length of those cuttings is gov-' erned by the" size of the coupling C to be formed. i I

Through the middle part t of each of the ends of the plate (1, and near their outer edges, the holes 6 are made. Into those holes the wires .9, Fig. 6, are inserted. Each of those wires occupies two of those holes. Between the two holes occupied by it each of those wires has a bearing upon the plate (1,

Figs. a and 5. Two of those wires being thus inserted in each end of the part tof the plate (1, they are secured thereto-by bending down upon them the ends of the part If, so as to form the lip w upon each of those ends, Figs. 5 and 4:. As thus adjusted the free ends of those wires project from the outer edges of the middle part 25 of the plate (Z, Fig. 4.

The parts h of the plate cl, Fig. 5, complete the mechanism of the coupling and fastener The coupling tions and atintervals corresponding with the spaces between those indentations. Those wires are bent inward and down upon the upper lapped edges of sections A and B, the dimensions of those sections being uniformly the same throughout. The upper edges of section B project slightly above those of section A. At the lapping-point of those sections, Fig. 1, the wires .9, Fig. 4, as they are bent downward come first in contact with the upper edges of section B at the indentations b of its lapped end and force that section tightly down into section A, to which it is firmly bound by bending the ends of those wires against the inner surface of section B. The flexible plate d, by the operation of drawing those wires separately over those edges and bending them down by means of pinchers, is at the same time bound tightly around theiouter surface of section A, making a tight and rigid lap of those sections, Fig. 1. A third section, of the exact dimensions and construction of sections A and B, is fastened to the free end of section B, in the manner above described, and so on until a gutter or trough of the length required is constructed.

The binding force and perfect stability of each of the wires 8, Fig. 6, independently of the others, when fastened to the sections in the manner above described, make of my i11- vention a simple, reliable, and inexpensive coupling, which may be quickly adjusted upon .or removed from the gutter-sections, and the latter shipped or stored in a compact form.

In adjusting the gutter in many places where its use is required it is made fast by bending down the fasteners h, Figs. 1 and 5, at required intervals and nailing those fasteners to the thing supporting the gutter.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the wire device .9 with the plate (1, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, With the sections of metal forming the guti er,of th eindependen tlyacting devices 8 8, attached to the flexible plate (I, and operating with that plate to fasten those sections together, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the

coupling 0, having-the independently-acting devices 8, for attaching that coupling to the gutter-sections A and B and binding those sections together, and having the independently-acting devices h, for fastening the gutter in position for use, substantially as described.

VILLIAM H. I-IAXVKINS. \Vitnesses:

JOHN SIMSON, EDWARD E. PARKHAM. 

